Mouse moves only vertically?

mikoro · 2008-02-26 17:49:57

Yikes, I did a pacman -Syu and restarted -> mouse got broken in X11. It works fine in console mode with gpm, but when I start X I can move the pointer sideways for about 0.5 secs and after that only vertical movement is possible. I tried to change in xorg.conf between normal and evdev driver, but neither works... How should I fix this?

PS. I tried with stock 2.6.24 kernel and with custom 2.6.23, doesn't work.

brebs · 2008-02-26 17:53:51

mikoro wrote:

pacman -Syu

Look in /var/log/pacman.log and show what happened.

mikoro · 2008-02-26 18:30:32

brebs wrote:

Look in /var/log/pacman.log and show what happened.

I checked it through it warned about changing xorg input detection to hal based stuff or something. I found this file related to that message:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <!-- FIXME: Support tablets too. -->
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">mouse</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>
    </match>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

      <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
           keyboard otherwise). -->
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">pc105</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
        <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fi</merge>

      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

It seems like changing something from it might solve it...?

tigrmesh · 2008-02-26 20:20:54

Do you have the [testing] repository enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf?

mikoro · 2008-02-27 16:46:49

Thanks, that was the problem. I reverted to the stable xorg version and it works now.

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#1 2008-02-26 17:49:57

Mouse moves only vertically?

#2 2008-02-26 17:53:51

Re: Mouse moves only vertically?

#3 2008-02-26 18:30:32

Re: Mouse moves only vertically?

#4 2008-02-26 20:20:54

Re: Mouse moves only vertically?

#5 2008-02-27 16:46:49

Re: Mouse moves only vertically?

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